The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-17 00:00:00

FEBOAT SERVICES. —During the storms of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat titution savtd 417 persons from different wrecks on our sts. The Institution also expended £13,810 3s. 2d. in e same period on lifeboat estatiliehments, in addition to granting £1,311 Gs. ( d. as rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked persons by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on th", Institution's 137 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. rfE AT R E ROYAL, DRURY- LANE. — Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TajS EVENING, a new and original Farce, by Edmund FalconCr, entitled T E O'FLAIINKT Y 'S. M. Edmund Falcone, ; Messrs G. Belmore, Barrett. Fitzjames, &c.; Miss Iludspeth, Miss E. Falconer, Mrs. Vandenhoff, &c. Aft,r which, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Play of CYM._tiI.:LING-. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Creswi k, H. arsto vile, n, Walter Lacy, Edmund Ph . elpi, A. Raynor, G F. 1` eviLe, Fitzjarmes, &c. ; Miss Atkinson and Miss Helen Fau:nt. f_ past Six -Commence at Seven. oors open at ha Iy:UttY.I.ANE THEATRE --SEASON FREE ADMISSIONS, adit.ittinz to the Dregs Circle, Vpper Boxes, or Pit, nnt . il next September, :o all public per torman,es. only Two quineas each. Apply toe. W., 3, Wal cot-place - Wear, hennington-roan, S. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Lessee. M-. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, 3IADEMOISELLE7DE BELLE ISLE. tiessrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &e. , Mesdames Beatrice, Ange', &c. Ater which, PRESENTED AT COURT. Messrs. Bnck stone, Rowe, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, liraid, SLe. ; Mes dames 'nowdon, Griffith, !ILI, Wright, Lovell, &a And '32.kCCIIUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY. October 22, with a New Drama, entitled the KING'S BUTTERFLY, in which Mr. F ec hter will perform the principal character, The Scenery painted by Mr. William Callcott. The Box-office open daily from Elev..n till Five. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Ting EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferh Mr. Dominick Murray. , After wh:cl?, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining . , j. N ., ‘ • Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. '.- Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Mils Fanny Gwynne. NE W TEM ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI. Sale Proprot,,r and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Novelty and Attraction - Third Week of Mr. John Collins, the popular Irish Con:lel:Wm and Vocalist, who is only en ga_;ed for a limited number Pi nights. 'THIS EVENING, and clinting the Week (by desire), the Comedy of THE IRISH A3I. 3 ASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'L'lenipo, Mr. John Collins (with the song of "The Bold Soldier Boy"), supported by l!ileL srs. Billington, Stuart, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Roma; Mrs. Billington and Miss Benrie.ta Simms. To conclude with the celebrated scrlO-Cemie Drama, by 5. „Lover, Esq., of RORY O'MORE. Rory, Mr. John Collins, a ith t .e songs of ~ The Wi low Machree," and " The Sprig of Shillilah." The other chAra,ters by Mr Billington, Mr Pairlips, Mr Paul Bedford, Mr Stuart, Mr Stephenson, Mr C. J. smith.; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss Kate Kelly, etc. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMIN.EN I' TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular 1 heatre is Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, UNDER THE ROSE. At a quarter to 8, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY GET OUT up' IT ? Mr. J. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce, entitled WOOD OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. C. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. Those celebrated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, are re engaged. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. H, J. Montague; Miss Wentworth. ROYAL STRAND Mrs. THE oroAugh.TE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Swanb ß TIII3 EVENING, ..TNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MIL KY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James; Mesdames Swanborough and Randers. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. 3iarqui5'.......255. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 21s. ~D e( p ....22i. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of theli De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Agent. VIVO THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," JL Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLItNIE, NEws AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by 11 EN'ltY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish btreet, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morning, 2h. 59m.—Afternoon, 3a. 25m. ro-xoußow.-Morning, 3b. 43.n.—Afternoon. 4a. 10m. ' fi r ciN eatelt e, r Alt tl"ts , Ler 0PP,...'• LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 17, 1864. Mr. GLADSTONE'S remarks at Manchester were characterised by much the same tone which distinguished his speeches at Liverpool. It not b ing the first time that the right hon. gentleman had spoken publicly in Manchester, he was enabled to draw a comparison between the past and the present, which was alike instructive and interesting. He truly stated that the years of progress, of suffering, which had since: passed had given them all much valuable experience, and exhibited to them in its true light the character o! their country and countrymen. In no better place could the Chancellor of the EKchelaer have made this remark than in Manchester, the centre of the district in which so much suffering has been nobly borne and well endured. In taking a retrospective glance at the period which had passed since he last addressed them, Mr. GLADSTONE expatiated upon the great change that had taken place in the discussion of our fureign policy. In past days this was confined to the periods when any particular instance arose, bat now all that refers or relates to other lands ere constantly considered by the Legislature, the press, and the people. It was a happy ea pression of the right hon. gentleman's that we have now no i‘ natural enemy," In olden days it was the fashion to consider that this country must have some spe cial and particular antagonist —some nation that was to be regarded in the light of a deter• mined foe ; but the spread of enlighten ment and the interchange of communica tions hive done great things in the way of effecting a change in this important particular. A Minister of the Crown holding a responsible po sition in the councils of his Soveteign can hardly announce a more cheering fact than that we are at peace and likely to continue on good terms with other countries of the world. Mr. GLADSTONE'S remarks were in a general sense. He did not touch upon the particulars of recent events in the north of Europe, bat it cannot be said that the last two years have witnessed the successful government in effecting what he rightly says ought to be our aim and end in the communications that we have with other countries, " that they should adopt for their standing guidance of conduct the principle of re. ecting the rights of one another." With respect the American war the Chancellor of the Es chcquer deckred that they held that we had no right to interfere with the Americans settling their own affairs, but he gave it as his own opinion that " he had always had great doubts as to the probability of reducing to subjection any large portion of a country that manifests a determined disposition, to separate." The tight hon. geitleman d the perspicuity to declare this some time ago, when he said that JEFFERSON DAVIS had made the South a nation, and Succeeding events have fully borne out the validity of his opinion. Most far sighted observers of foreig n Policy have come round to this view of the question by this time, whatever their desires as to the result may b e, and this cons viction serves to increase the feeling of regret at the great sufferings that have been so needlessly inflicted here in England, end to a far greater extent in Americi. Mr. GLADSTONE'S concluding remarks upon the dieress that has occurred in the northern districts were very effective. He truly said that the recollection of the last three years is as worthy of consideration as the brightest records of success in manufacturing and commercial skill, for the " moral aspect" bears so much interest and value. Wo have seen a population, counted almost by millions, cast into distress, and we have seen those millions meet and encounter distress." Speaking of the measures adopted for the relief of the distress, Mr. GLADSTONE truly stated that it was a great feature in itself that 90 much should have been done to alleviate the misfortune in a spontaneous manner. " To think that the wants of hundreds of thousands, almost millions, could be met as they have been met — not by the agency of Government—not by convok ing Parliament, and passing special laws—not by the employment of an army of official persons sent forth at the public charge to ascertain, to record, and to regulate that relief—but by the voluntary action of the community itself; by the mixed influ ence of Christian charity and practical wisdom thoroughly combining together; by the power and organisation made applicable on a gigantic scale to the relief of a gigantic calamity, is almost new in the history of the country." The Chancellor of the Exchequer has done well to speak in appreciating terms of the glorious spectacle that has been exhibited by the North of England ; it is one which any Minister should recognise, and it has been of signal service in displaying the extent of the improvements that have taken place of late years among the community. Education and the increase of reading among the lower classes have been potent auxiliaries in helping on this good work; their mighty influence was not felt till a momentous occasion called forth its powers and developed its resources, but having once been appreciated they oan never be forgotten nor despised again. Mr. GLADSTONE effectively closed his address by expressing a hope. that the results of this struggle would be to im prove the future condition of trade in the .north —to establish it on a firmer basis—so that the resources of many countries might be pressed into the service, to supply the " industry to which the whole world is a debtor, for there is no portion of the world which is not a debtor to the cotton industry of Lancashire." The great colliery strike in the Midland Counties is virtually at an end, and there are probably few persons who would desire its continuance. After a duration of fifteen weeks they have been compelled, by the exigencies of trade, to abandon their pur pose, and to break up their organisation. With the exception of some unwarrantable outrages, which have recently tended to alienate public sym pathy from their cause, the general behaviour of the men has been quiet and orderly, and those ex ceptions were probably regretted by no one more than by the body of the colliers themselves, whose good name was thus imperilled. But after this protracted struggle of conflicting interests, the men have had the sense to see that their cause was growing only more hopeless as time went on, for the demands of the great coal consumers were being supplied from the north and from the west, so that even now the strike is ended, its conse quences are likely to be felt in the new element of competition which it has brought into the market. The only strength possessed by men on strike is their power of compelling their masters to accede to their terms from the impossibility of carrying on their trades without labour, Bat when e fresh channel of supply is opened it is no longer a war in which both sides are fairly matched, and the questicn is which side can hold out the longest, but the whole weight falls on the men and their families, and it only remains to bs seen to what extent these will carry their useless privations. The large supplies of coal, amounting, it is said, to 10,000 tons daily, which are now coming into South Staffordshire, entirely independent of the collieries of the Black Country, must naturally excite considerable apprehension in the minds of all connected with the local trade, and, therefore, it is not surprising that the men themselves should take some steps towards altering the state of affairs. Accordingly on Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Bilston colliers was convened, for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr. SAMUEL GRIFFITHS, a well-known and highly-popular metal broker of the neighbourhood. There was a very large attendance of men notwithe standing that the notice had been short, and:they listened to Mr. GRIFFITHS'S address with remark.. able attention. That gentleman spoke at so me length, and argued strongly against the continu ance of the strike, saying that although he thought they had been justified in striking, yet the con dition of the iron trade rendered the struggle per fectly hopeless. This was very unwelcome news to the men, but they received it very quietly, and two of their own leaders had the courage and good sense to step forward and move that, in consequence of the convincing nature of Mr. GRIFFITHS'S arguments, work should be resumed on Monday next. The motion having been put to the meeting, was received with dead silence, which was perhaps as might be expected, but after the meeting the committee resolved to break up, leave ing every man to do as he thought proper. So that the great strike is really at an end, for, of course, it would be useless for a part to hold oat while others worked, and a good many men are certain to re. turn to work as soon as the organisation is broken up. It is to be hoped that the losses and sufferings which it has entailed will not have been fruitless, bat that masters and men will alike have learned something from them. The masters cannot be said to have altogether triumphed, for as we have said the new arrangements for supplying Welsh and Northern coals are likely to p rove injurious to them, while the men have only too much cause to remember the strike. It is on the wives and little ones that the chief weight of these strikes falls, and they are therefore to be doubly deplored. At the same time the masters would do well to remember that it is their own tyranny and selfishness that drives men to combine against them and seek that protection from union which they cannot get from anything else. They are quite acute enough to see that wages which go down so promptly in bad times do not rise as quickly in good ones ; in fact, do not often rise at all. Self-interest is too often predominant with employers, and who can wonder that the employed are ready to extort from fear what they cannot get from justice ? The system of intimidation to fellow-workmen, and of dictating to the employers what men they shall engage or what wages they shall giv©, is altogeth er con t rary to E ng li s h prin. ciples of fair play, and it is these tendencies that are tho great evil of strikes. There is room for improvement on both sides, before either fully re cognise the truth that their interests are, i n f ad, identical. According to the promises given at the Ports mouth banquet last week, the Ministry will yet be called to account for the extraordinary doings with respect to the Royal Sovereign. There was no wonder that the topic should be brought forward on the occasion in question, for Sir JAMES ELPHIN. STONE, M.P. for Portsmouth, is one of the popular representatives who are more feared than loved by supine Lords of the Admiralty and their misma naging subordinat es . Th e h on . mem b er a nd hi s friend, Admiral Sir JOHN HAY, h.ve done good rHE SUN, LONDON', MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1864. service to the public on many occasions, by calling attention to several instances of maladministration in nautical matters, and it was not likely that so flagrant a case as that of the Royal Sovereign would escape their notice. Sir JOHN HAY remarked that Captain COLES' plan had been only too successful to please those in office, while Sir JAMES ELPHINSTONE said with truth that the principle of the turret had proved so satisfactory that Government could not discard it ; but what did they do? " They took a class of ship unfit for the purpose, cut her down and converted her, and then commissioned her by a most distinguished cfficer. In three months the Royal Sovereign was a pattern ship for the British navy, and then she w s ordered to be paid cff." Sir J. ELPHINSTONE could not acquit the authorities on the scare of ignorance, for Admiral DACRES and the whole Channel Fleet had had an opportunity of inspecting her when Captain OSBORN visited Portland, and no doubt, said the hon. member, the admiral blessed his stars that the Royal Soverign was not an enemy. But however convincing such practical evidence of her success, it was easy to find an excuse for putting so formidable a rival out of the way, and we appre hend that Lord CLARENCE PAGET will find his part of the Parliamentary catechism not very easy. In political matters the existing Administration did not fare much better, and Mr. FITZGERALD was very happy in exhibiting their deficiencies in the three points on which they mike their boast— Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform. The banquet which was given in honour of Sir JAMES ELPHIN STONE went off brilliantly, and was a most worthy expression of public feeling towards a very able and useful member. We need such guardians of the public interest, and in no quarter is their vigilance more needed than in those mysterious regions where work is always going on, and money being always spent, to very little practical purpose. Royal English Opera, Covent-garden. The inauguration of the first season of the Royal EngHata Cumpany (Limited) on Saturday was a complete success. Long before the rising of the curtain every seat of the splendid theatre was oc• cupied, and on Mr Mellon taking his seat in the orchestra he was warmly greeted. In selecting Auber's opera of " Masaniello" for the first performance, the directors acted very wisely, because it enabled them to introduce one of their new tenors, and at the same time to avail themselves of the opportunity of presenting to the public one of the grandest and most striking spec tacles produced during the last season at the Royal Italian Opera. After the performance of the brilliant and charming overture, an encore for which Mr Melton could not resist, the opera commenced, and the opening scene at once showed the style and spirit the company intend to produce their operas. There was the peasantry, courtiers, soldiers, and ballerini gradually filling the vast wing and elevated terrace in the background with the admin. able ensemble grouping and colours for which the Italian Opera at Covent Garden has become re , - nowned both at home and abroad. While on the subject of spectacle, we may observe that a buzz of satisfaction greeted the scene of the environs of Portici, with the fishermen unloading the boats, &c. on the rise of the curtain on the second act, and then the admiration culminated at the life-like bustle of the market place, and tremendous finale of the revolt of the people, amid the flames of the burning palace, of the Duke, and the barricades and ground strewed with the wounded and the dying. Having thus briefly disposed of the scenic portion of the opera we come to the most important in gredient, viz., the singers. The part of the hero, MaEaniello, was sustained by Mr. Charles Adams, an Englishmen we believe, who has just finished a successful engagement at the Royal Opera, Berlin. His voice is a high tenor, clear, and of considerab:e register. He is slender in figure, but possesses a pleasing counte nance ; and although we should say he is on ordi nary occasions perfectly at his ease on the stage, on Saturday night ho was evidently Buffering from great nervousness. To that circumstance we attri bute the slight Effect produced in singing the cele brated barcarole at the commencement of the second act. In the duet with Pietro he was some what deficient in energy ; but in the tender portions of the part Mr Adams revealed the true quality of his voice. In the air addressed to his sleeping sister he sang with a richness of tone and feeling which made it as charming as it was pathetic. Despite all the drawbacks Mr Adams made a most success ful debtit, and one thing is perfectly certain, viz., that we have a most accomplished tenor, and one whose real triumph has yet to come. Mr Herbert Bond, another debatant, sustained the un thankful part of Alfonso, but he also produced a most favourable impression. Hie voice is a tenor of light quality, but capable, we should imagine, of much better things than the part of the Count affords. Mr Weiss, as Pietro, sang in his usual style—the guitar song, in the fifth act, of course brought down immense applause. The other male parts were all well sustained. Madame Parepa'e Elvira was the best we have heard on the E ng lish stage, and although the part is one far below the talents of the accomplished ci e i n t die Rose ar ti s te, she sang the music) with as much care and taste as if it had been one of th e mos t mim portant description. Perhaps the m os t diffi cu l t character fur which to find an fa n representa tiveGra thei u s d th dumb e m a na g g i e r m l 1° management enel have succeeded l a beyond all but Our hope. With the exception of the late Madame Monte we have never seen the part more exquisitely performed. _ _ The opera concluded most successfull y, a n d a l l that remains for us to do is to congratulate the directors and manager of the company on th e brilliant commencement of their new enterprise. The Yelverton Appeal Cave, After the opinions in this case were delivered in the House of Lords on the 28th July a draft of the intended judgment was transmitted to the soli citors for the parties, whereby it was proposed, in the action of declarator of marriage, to reverse the judgment of the First Division of the Court of Session, and to absolve the appellant, Major Yel verton, from the conclusions of the summons; and in the action of declarator of freedom, and putting to silence, to give judgment in favour of Major Yelverton in terms of both conclusions of the summons, as had been done by Lord Ardmillan in the first judgment in the cause ; but in both cases without expenses. The summons of declarator of freedom and putting to silence contained not only the leading conclusion to have the defender put to silence, but also a second conclusion to have her found liable to the appellant, Major Yelverton, in £5O of damages. It was main tained for Mrs. Yelverton, first before the chief clerk of the House of Lords, and afterwards before Sir John Shaw Lefevre, but without success, that not only was it not the intention of the House of Lords to award damages against the respondent, but that it was incompetent to do so, as no judgment for damages could be given 'without interven tion of a jury t o assess them, according to the provisions of th e 6 t h G eo. IV., cap. 120, sec, 28, which hich appropri a t es a ll such questions for trial by jury. Having failed to get the draft judgment altered according to the respondent's contention, the matter was r e f erre d to the Lord Chancellor • and on Thursday last hi s l or d sh i p, after hearing' Mr. Tippette for the appellant, and Mr. Wakeford, of Simson and Wakeford, for Mrs. Yelverton, ruled that in the action of declarator of freedom and put• ting. to silence judgment ought to be made in con formity with the first conclusion of the summons only, thus giving effect to the view contended for by the respondent, and disallowing any award of damages. The judgment of the house has now been issued as so settled by his lordship.—Scotsman. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MARID, OCT. 16. The circular relative to the elections issued by Senor Uonzilez Bravo is well received by the Madrid journals. The Iberia states that 500 workmen have been dismissed from the arsenal of Carrasa. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, OCT. 10, The Euxine left hero at 5 a i m. to-day for Mar seilles, and tae Syria will leave at 1 a.m. tc-morrow for Southampton. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Barod3, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Malta on the 13th at 3 a,m., and left at 3 p.m. for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Marseilles on the 12th inst., arrived at midnight on the 14th, and left at 6 a.m. on the 15th for Alexandria. AUSTRIA. The Vienna journals announce the deatb, in that cats, of Prince Waldemar of Anhalt, aged 67, brother of the reining Duke. The Altona Mercury says :—Several geometrical surveys have been made during the last few days at Rendsburg, connected with the intended works of the fortifications and the canal. The park of artil lery, composed of the cannon taken from the enemy, and which forms the c)mmon property of the allies, was said to have been sold to an Austrian specula tor, but we now learn that it was only the Austrian portion that was sold, and that nothing has yet been done with the Prussian part. Those guns have no value except as old metal. FRANCE. " The recent visit of Lord Clarendon to Vienna," says the Pays," had for result the reduction of the Austrian army. The Vienna Cabinet is said to have consented to that measure on the formal promise that England would induce the Italian Government to adopt a similar proceeding." Oa the other hand, the Fremdenblatt, of Vienna, pub lishes a letter from Turin which represents France as acting in a similar sense. It says :—" King Victor Emmanuel this week received from a French officer, sent here expressly, an autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon. The King immediately sum moned a Cabinet Council. An hour after all the Ministers being assembled, his Majesty, with theEm peror'a letter in his hand, said, "Gentlemen, Austria disarming;i the order for reducing her army has been given, and in Venetia alone 15,000 men quit their regiments. The Emperor Napoleon is greatly pleased at those pacific tendencies of Austria, and desires to see us follow the good example so given, and to introduce strict order in our finances.' A long deliberation followed, and I can affirm that the Cabinet was unanimously in favour of actiag like Austria. In spite of a marked unwillingness on the part of the King to reduce the army, his Majesty was obliged to give directions to the Mi nisters of Finance and of War to concert together for the purpose of fixing the amount cf the reduc tions that might be necessary, and to present to him as soon as possible positive propositions on the subject." " Some provincial journals," says the Constitu. tionnel, " have announced the formation of a high commission charged to revise the organisation of the administrative officials of the army. We are able to affirm that the War Department had no project of the kind in contemplation. Tne Europa of Frankfort is not better informed as to the extraordinary works which would, it 13 , Ayg, cause the marshals to meet much earlier than usual, They are to be convoked for the ordinary period, and will only have to occupy themselves, as i❑ former years, with the classification of the officers proposed for promotion at the last general iaspee- ion." BOURSE, Oat. 15.—The market has been more buoyant. Threes, for the Account, are now a' 65f. 30c. Mobilier, whicli was yesterday quoted by mistake 8781, instead of 888!, has improved to 8971. Railway Market firm, with an improvement on some of the lines. The market closed as follows: 11 per Cents. .. 91 80 Do. end month.... Italian Loan 65 Do. end month..., 65 80 Ditto Threes .. 40 75 New Mexican b 0 75 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes., — 1 - lome Debt Deferred per Cents Do. end month 65 26 Credit Mobilier..., 8 98 7 5 Do. end month..., 897 50 Bank Shares .3390 Credit L under ....1160 Roman — RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Chiean5..c....i........ 837 50 .. 835 Northern 14 - o . usandlqeditcaraneat 890 .. 888 75 Southern Western - Eastern Sardinian .. 330 .. 330 -- Austrian Lcurbard NorthofSpain Saragossa.. 470 .. 466 25 Ditto to Barcelona - -- .. 20J -- CHINA AND JAPAN. We take the following summary of news from the China Ocerland Mail of 27th August : " Japau has been the subject of some anxiety during the last fortnight, and theta are not wanting prospects of speedy hostilities in the Straits of Shimonoseki, which forms the Gibraltar of the Inland Sea. Matters may thus briefly be stated. On or about the 25th of July last two Japanese ambassadors' reached Yokohama by the mail steamer. Both were dressed as Europeans, and had been for three months in England, whither they had been sent, they affirmed, by their master, the Prince of Nagato. Shortly after their arrival, two of her Majesty's vessels of war (the Bsrossa and the Cormorant) got up steam, and proceeded to the Straits of Shimonaski with the two men on board. There were also on board an engineer officer and some French and Dutch offi eers. This was the first visit paid to these Straits by any foreign vessel for about a year, and there was some reason to suspect that Nagato had in the interval strengthened his fortifications. There is every reason to suppose that this suspicion is correct. Whatever errand the two ships of war went upon—we hear it was to demand the opening of the Inland Sea—they returned without having accomplished it. All their demands met from the Prince of Nagato an absolute refusal. The ambassadors' were put on shore at their master's territory. In consequence of what passed it was at once arranged that the combined French, L'nglis, and Dutch fleet should leave Yokohama about the 2lth inst., to see how far it was possible to enforce their demands upon the Prince. The fleet intended for this service consisted of 16 English, two French, and four Dutch vessels of war, a force somewhat more formidable than that employed at liagosima, but of questionable use against the forts and forces of Nagato, should he prove to have increased in mili tary strength during the past year, which it is to be feared he has to a very considerable extent. A battalion of Marines will embark with the fleet from Yokohama leaving chat port defended by the 20th Regi• went and detachments of the 67th. There have also been ordered up from Shanghai 100 men of the 67th and 150 Be loochees. As an additional protection to the settlement her Majesty's ship Conqueror and the United States steamer Jamestown will remain at Yokohama. " The fleet about to sail 12 days after the date of our las Japan advices (Aug. 13) was to rendezvous in the Bango Channel. where her Majesty's ships Perseus and Osprey would join them from Shanghai, with a supply of coal in sailing vessels which they were ordered to escort. It can not be sooner than the middle of September before hostili ties commence, should matters ever come to that pass ; and, from the extent of the operations, there is some reason to fear the worst. Large as these preparations are, comparatively, they are much too insignificant, in the opinion of well-informed judges, for the purpose of putting our relations with Japan on a liberal, permanent, and satis factory footing. For this purpose a land force of not lees than 15,000 is said to be needed; and if we should wait another year, while the Japanese continue to mature their the , y , Farroem China calculated thteo chiefarouse political olaica seriousl newsan anxiety. e t h y. a reference to own prep arat i ons, a force of 20,000 men might be unequal to the ta s k o f o b taining what we desire. Meantime, these are all the l a t est authentic items of news from Japan, and the state of the c ountry. That China can never be at perfect peace is a probl em which we need not attempt to solve. Its Government has been ca ll ed a despotic government, but s there is no country in the world where the peace of the em pire depends so much on the goodwill of the people, and of this few are better aware than the mandarins themselves The Taoping rebellion has been one of the worst sores conse quent upon the pride, haughtiness, and self-sufficiency into which the Chinese rulers had fallen (from Hien Fung down to the lowest civil officer) that has for a long time puaished the sins of the governing classes. It was in itself a malady that would never have resulted in political purgation—an ulcer which foreigners wished to keep clear of by 30 miles at least, and which they have shown the Chinese how to cure. The physician has hitherto got but scant thanks from his querulous patient, and the next matter of curiosity will be to see whether China's renewed vigour will be used in our favour or against us. Several questions have been waiting solution for some time, chiefly with re gard to treaty rights ; and those questions have been defer red on account of the trouble attending the Taeping re bellion. The Royal. Alfred. In the launch of this frigate, which took place at Portsmouth on Saturday, the Admiralty have sent efloit another vessel that, when she has been clothed with her machinery, may be added to the list of England's ironclad fleet, and become one of the total number which now comprises some nine or ten descriptions of vessels varying in all the ex tremes of tonnage, speed, and mode of construction which now form our somewhat heterogenoue collec tiotfof ironclads. The Royal Alfred is one of the Prince Consort and Royal 04k class, their frames designed and prepared as 92-gun screw line-of battle ships, but afterwards cut down to a frigate's battery, altered in form at the bow and stern, and strenthened considerably in every part to carry the weight of 4in. armour plating. The Royal Alfred was ordered to be built as a line. of-battle ship in October, 1859, of the following general dimensions :—Length between perpendi zulars, 2521 t ; length of keel for tonnage, 213 ft 9111; breadth extreme, 58ft ; breadth for tonnage, 57ft 2in; breadth moulded, 56ft 4in; depth in hold, 19ft 10in ; burden in tons, 3,715 62-94, The ship was accordingly laid down and nearly completed in accorance with these orders, when, after the work had been suspended on her for some time, just at the period when wooden liners had become univer sally acknowledged as useless to compete with iron clad frigates, a second order relative to the ship was issued from the Admiralty in June, 1861, which on this occasion directed that the ship's upper deck, so far as it had been constructed, should be removed, and the necessary alterations and strengthening of her frame carried out, to com plete her as an ironacased frigate. Under these new conditions the Royal Alfred ,has been suf ficiently completed to be launched from off the ship way on which she has been constructed on Satur day, her hull shorn externally of all aids to her beauty, her bows without the ‘4figure.head" which has existed as part of a ship from the time of the Phoenicians, or the curved lines of head-rail and cutwater, and her stern without the ornamental quarter-galleries, and reduced to a bare conical ter mination, the apex projecting over and protecting the fixed screw and rudder; her length is now in., creased beyond her original dimensions to 273 ft. be tween perpendiculars and 233 ft. on her keel, and her tonnage increased to 4,045 26 91, while her breadth remains the same. Oa Saturday, as, previous to launching, she lay on her blocks, with her vast hull painted black, and without other orna ment than the gaily-decorated bottle of wine sus pended from the stem for the "christening," she looked like some antediluvian monster. Mr. Cra deck, the master shipwright of Portsmouth Dock yard, had the direction and care of launching the ship, Rear-Admiral G. Elliot, Admiral superinten dent, superintending the operations. A few minutes before 10 a.m. Miss Alice Craelcck, the daughter of the master shipwright, was led forward, and with great grace broke the bottle against the ship's stem —at the same time uttering the customary wish, " Success to the Royal Alfred." The ship was named, but not yet quite freed. Some ten blocks under her keel remained to be split out, but the most of these were soon laalt with, and Miss Cradock, having a small mallet placed in her hands, struck a blow on a sharp chisel held against the card on the ship's stem which kept sus pended the iron " dogs," when the latter descended in their grooved channels and knocked clear the dogshores which alone now held the ship on the ways. A few moments only of suspense, accom panied by groaning and creaking sounds, and the ship started and slid with a gentle rush into the water, amid ringing cheers from thousands of spec• Won,. Like others of her class, the Royal Alfred does not look much handsomer afloat than she did on the stocks, bat in the absence of beauty there is evident fitness for fighting purposes as a broadside ship, looking on her superficially as she lay broadside on to the building shed, and brought up in that posi tion by her anchor immediately after being launched. If the launching scene be now left and the reader transported on board the Royal Al fred, the ship may be inspected from another point of view. Upper deck is at present clear fore and aft, after the fashion of cur best specimens of wooden screw frigates, with the exception that a forecastle is being constructed at the fore end of the deck, and lines are laid out for the erection of a poop at the after end ; the first being a covered-in space of the deck, which may be appropriated to the accommo dation of the crew; and the second a similar space for the accommodation of an admiral and his -uge—the Royal Alfred being destined as a ft ig• ship—thus meeting the difficulty hitherto expe rienced in providing such accommodation for the uffiser commanding a fighting fleet. The upper deck of the Royal Alfred is composed of the ordinary wooden planking; but this is laid upon an iron deck of half - inch boiler plate, which, strength ened and tied by edge and butt straps of iron of equal thickness, and by fora and aft stringer rows of plates, rests upon rolled iron beams which span the ship at short intervals. Descending from this upper to the main or gun deck below, the ship is here found to give, from appearances, her greatest promise of fu'ure efficiency as a man of war, and at the same time, on close examination, she exhibits her inefficiency as such in common with her sisters of the same class. The deck, from beam to floor, is of good height, there is ample room for working the guns of the battery fore and aft, the means of venti lation for carrying off the smoke in rapid firing are good, and, to crown all, the entire deck, round the stem and stern, as well as on the broadside, is pro tected by 41-inch roiled armour plates, from the Atlas Works, Sheffield. So far for efficiency. As to her inefficiency, all this capital arrangement of gun battery, roomy quarters, and ventilation, pro tected by the best of all armour plating, is sup ported only by some 18 inches of timber, without any inner iron lining, and the consequences in action would be that steel shot from guns of any power would go completely through the side of the ship fired at, and knock off the armour plates from the opposite side, and if only cast iron shot were fired from the ordinary 68 pounder smooth bore gun, although the shot would not penetrate into the ship, yet the splinters flung off from the unlined ship's side internally by the impact of the shot upon the armour plates would be sufficient to disable all the men at the guns. Descending lower into the ship, workmen are found busily employed fitting the mess, berthing, Sec., for the crew; and still lower may be seen the preparations made for the reception of her machinery. Neither machinery nor armour plates yet form part of the Royal Alfred, and both will have now to be fitted in dock or in the floating basins of Portsmouth yard, as may be required, according to the progress of the ship's outfit, The engines will be of the united power of 800 horses, nominal, from the estab lishment of Messrs Mandalay, Field, and Co., the latter fact being a sufficient guarantee for their ex cellence. The lower masts of the ship are splendid specimens of iron manufacture, from the works of Messrs Finch, of Chepstow. The Royal Alfred is pierced for 35 guns, but - with the rapid strides now being made in the calibres of naval ordnance it would be useless to speculate upon what her armament may eventually be. Rear-Admiral George Elliot, after the launch had been accomplished, entertained a large party to luncheon at his official residence in the dockyard. A large body of the Metropoliten Police, under the command of Mr Superintendent Grey, rendered tfficient service during the launch of the ship. New German Hospital. The new German Hospital at Dalston, built to replace the old institution, which was found to be utterly inade quate to the accommodation of a greatly increasing number of inmates, was inaugurated on Saturday afternoon by H.R.11, the Duke of Cambridge, the president. It is well known that London, and particularly the eastern portion, contains an immense number of German residents—in fact, the number is estimated as high as 30,000—yet until about 20 years since there was no institu tion especially devoted to their reception if ill or destitute of the commonest comforts or necessaries. The wealthier Ger man residents soon, however, took steps to found an asylum where the misery and want of their poorer countrymen could bo relieved—and, seconded by the benevolent efforts of her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the late King of Prussia, an hospital was opened at Dalstnn in Oct., 1545, in the presence of the present royal president and of :a nu merous assemblege. The late King of Prussia and two Ger man merchants liberally advanced £3,000, without inter s', and, with this sum to start with, the premises formerly occupied by the Infant Orphan Asylum w..re secured and adapted to the end required. The comrniitee also secured the services of a matron and three nurses from the Protee tent establishment at Keieerwerth on the Rhine, founded by Pastor Fliedner, whose death we recorded on Satur ay last, feeling that it would add greatly to the comfort of the poor patients if they were attended by persons speaking their own language, and to whom they could express their inmost wants and wishes. Several English gentlemen, zealous in the cause of charity, soon came to the assist ance of the committee, and since then the institution has been the means of affording relief to 150,000 sufferers, either in or out patients, above a third of whom are Eng lish. Iu fact, the institution, though nominally an hos pital for Germans, is conducted on the most liberal and comprehensive principles—for English ;people, as well as natives of other countries, are at all times admitted freely when there is room. The average daily number of English out-patients is 100. Benevolent sympathy was speedily felt in the progress of the hospital, and the late Mr Ruth, the treasurer, gave the munific nt donation of £4,600. His example was followed by others, who felt that increased accommodation was urgently necessary, and ar rangements were made to establish a building fund for the new hospital opened on Saturday. It is situated in what was formerly the garden, in the rear of the present hospital, and stands on admirable soil, gravel and sand, The structure consists of two blocks, con nected by a corridor. The front block contains the residen tial building, the kitchens, dispensary, effices for medical and ether officers, and 8 or 10 rooms intended for the use of patients who may wish to avail themselves of the advantages afforded by a sanatorium attached to the hospital. The wards are 15ft. high in the clear, and provide 1,506 cubic feet of air for each bed. At the end of the wards are soul leri es, bath rooms, and other conveniences, with rooms for the nurses and sisters. On the ground floor is an accident ward, which will contain 10 beds, and a waiting room for out patients. A commodious staircase gives access to the wards, of which there are four on the first floor, each afford ing space for 10 beds. The children's and female wards are on one side and the men's wards on the other. The second floor of the building consists of two large wards, estimated to contain 20 beds each, and there are also many other rooms for general purposes. The sleeping apartments for the attendants are in the attics. A lift, worked by hydraulic apparatus, is provided for raising coal, &c., and in the base ment is ample room for stores and other purposes. On the walls of the entrance hall are slabs on which are carved the names of many generous benefactors to the institution. The building has been erected by Professor Donaldson, in con junction with Mr Edward Gruning, the son of a great benefactor to the hospital, A bout £12,500 has been ex pended in the structural and some of the fittings, but the cost of the outbuildings, heating apparatus, the lift, gas fittings, &e., are not included in this amount. The chapel is 40ft, by 25ft., and 16ft. high. Over the communion table is a beautiful stained glass window, the subject being the "Good Samaritan." It is placed there in memory of the Prince Consort, and is presented by Mr J. Rahles, a member of the board of management. The floor is inlaid with Minton's encaustic tiles. In this chapel were assembled many ladies and gentle• mon on Saturday afternoon awaiting the arrival of the Dake of Cambridge, and amongst them were those ladies who had assisted in the promotion of the building by mak ing collections or giving donations. His royal highness came shortly before half-past 2, when he was received at the old hospital by the treasurer, M. 111einertzhagen, the chaplain, the Rev. W. Walbaum, the vice-presidents, and committee, by whom he was conducted in procession to the new building, preceded by the band of the Coldstream Guards, which had previously played some favourite opera tic airs in the garden fronting the new building. The route lay across a bridge paabing over the North London Railway, which here intersects the griunds. On reaching the chapel his royal highness took his station in front of the chancel, when a body of German choristers sang the celebrated hymn by Martin Rinckare, " Nun kanket alto Gott," originally composed in 1648, at the close of the 3d years' war through out Germany, and which has since been continued as the national hymn of thanksgiving. After this the chaplain read a psalm, and offered a prayer asking the Divine blessing on the success of the new institution, a doxology, "Lob, Ehr' tend Preis sei GrAt" was sung, when the royal presidents accompanied by the vice-presidents, the committee and officers, proceeded to inspect the hospital, the arrangements of which were explained by the architect. His royal high ness made a most minute examination of the building, with which he repeatedly expressed his satisfaction and convic tion that the 100 patients for whom provision is made will be well cared fur. The company assembled in the A. Bach ward on the upper story, when The TREASURER (M.Meinertzhagen) addressed the royal president and the friends of the charity, pointing out the benefits it had already conferred, and explaining the rise and progress of the new building which they had that day met to inaugurate. He afterwards read a long list of sub scriptions collected by ladies towards the building fund, amounting to about £1,300, and concluded by thanking the Duke of Cambridge for the honour conferred upon them by his attendance that day to formally open the building. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in reply, said he felt plea sure in being present at the opening of the institution. After the excellent address of their worthy treasurer and the sta• tistics he had laid before them, he had but little to say. He deeply regretted, however, that some of the valued members of their committee had been lost to them ; but it was grati fying to know that in the persons of their treasurer and other gentlemen present the losses would be supplied. He had had the pleasure to inspect the various wards and other portions of that noble building, and he felt bound to say that in every particular they seemed well adapted for the object in tended. The institution had experienced its day of adversity, it was true, but he trusted that with the open ing of the new building its days of ill fortune had passed away, and that they could now look forward to a period of unmitigated prosperity. It must, however, bo borne in mind that all similar institutions lived, if he might so ex press it, a hand-to-mouth kind of existence, and therefore he would remind all friends of the German Hospital that they should not be content with having raised the funds for the erection of the hospital, but that they should still con tinue to raise the means for supporting She charity, (Hear, hear.) After referring to the noble exertions of the ladies who had collected the amounts which had just been an nounced, his royal highness said that this should act as an incentive to the gentlemen, and should induce them to double the amount contributed as speedily as possible. (Cheers.) An acknowledgment was not only due to the committee who had carried out the undertaking, but to the medical staff, the rev, chaplain, to Professor Donaldson, and Sir Grunints the architect, all of whom he cordially thanke I in his own name and that of the officers of the, institution. He had only to declare that the now German Hospital was open, and he did so with much pleasure, (Cheers.) The committee hereupon reconducted his royal highness to his carriage, and the proceedings closed by the choir singing another hymn—"Thm Herr ist mein Hirt (the Lord is my Shepherd). DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDEB.,—A private soldier, named He nry Augustus Manna, was brought up at the Shirehal!, Chelmsford, on Tuesday, charged with the attempt at murder of a young woman named Charlotte Turner, a domestic servant living with Mr Nicholson, tailor, Chelmsford. The following evidence was given :—Major Masters said—l am a major in the 11th Regiment of Light Infantry; the prisoner is in the same regiment, and acts as my servant. I occupy apartments at the house of Mr Nicholson, tailor. A servant, Charlotte Turner, lives with Mr Nicholson, and cooks fur us, and occasionally, in the ab • sence of the prisoner, waits on us. I have for some tires past noticed an intimacy between her and the prisoner. Complaints have been made to me of the pri,ouer's con duct to the girl. I was in my drawing room this morning about 10 o'clock, when I heard screams and violent knocking. I went to the door, and saw the prisoner in the butler's pantry, three or four yards off. His coat was off, and his shirt sleeves tucked up to the elbows. 1 asked him what was the matter—he said, " Nothing." I requested him to come to me. lie made au approach towards rne, and then suddenly darted downstairs, and ran away. I went upstairs to my bedroom, the door of which I found locked. I knocked at the door, which was opened, and in the room I saw the girl with a large cut in her throat, and the blood pouring hem it. I went downstairs immediately and gave an alarm, and v► ent for a policeman. I met one, related the circumstance, and requested him to go in search of the prisoner, In the lock-up he said, " She has been trying to get me to do this for a long time, and now 1 have done it." William Seabrook, police sergeant, deposed— The prisoner was left for about ten minutes in my charge. He said two or three times, " She has aggravated me to do this. Da you know whether she is dead ?" I said that 1 did not. A few minutes afterwards I took the prisoner up stairs. lie then said, " It's best to tell the truth. I throw'd the razor into the river as I went up the London road. I meant to have thrown myself in," The prisoner, who was remanded, had been keeping company with the girl, but had been recently discarded for a more favoured sui tor. COMMITTAL OF A MERCHANT FOR FORGERY.— Samuel Hirst, late a merchant at Bradford, and now a bankrupt, has been committed for trial on a charge of forg• log the acceptance of Mr Jonathan Taylor, wool and waste dealer, 11t3eLdale, to a bill of exchange for X-I8 16s 64 - f , 61:13, iCt) , 13/1/ tar HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Oct. 14. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur, and attended by Lady Augusta Stanley and the Hon. Emma Lucellea, drove yesterday to the Lynn of Xluick. The Dean of Westminster left the Castle in the morning. The Hon. Sir Frederick Bruce arrived at th e Castle in the evening. OCT. 1 6 . The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley', went out yesterday morning ; and in the afternoon her Mpjesty went out driving, accompanied by Princess Helena and Prince Leopold. Viscountess Jocelyn arrived at the Castle as Lsdi in Waiting upon her Majesty. Sir George Grey had the honour of dining Wit h the Queen and Royal family. His Excellency the Ambassador of France Win not return to Albert Gate House till the latter erd of the month from Paris. The Duke of Rutland is passing the season At Cheveley Park, where his grace has been enters taining a succession of visitors. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington hal e arrived at Apsley House from Brighton. Emily Duchess of Beaufort and Lord and Lodi Londesborough have arrived at Grimston, 'rodeos' ter, from Scotland. The Marquis of Bristol, who has been sufferiog from severe indisposition for some time past, is, W e regret to learn, in a very week state, and but sli g ht , hopes are entertained of his recovery. The Eal' Jermyn and several other members of the tarta r have arrived at Ickworth Park, Dab Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have arrived at Linsdowne House, from Bowoodo Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Craven and the Ladie S Craven are shortly expected.; in town from s ll4 down Park, Berks. Lord Stanley of Alderley• has arrived at DOe r4 street from Alderley Park, Cheshire, for a fell days. Lord and Lady Alexander Lennox have arrived at Colonel Townley's residence in Charles-stre et, from Newmarket. Sir George and Lady Philips have arrived 1° town from Western House, Warwickshire, en rou t® for the Continent. The marriage of Colonel Farquharson of Inver' cauld and Miss Oswald is fixed to take place 00 the 4th of next month. The Prince and Princess of Wales ill Denmark. (From the Vines' Special Co, respondent) ELSINORE, Tuesday, Oct. 1 1 ' To-day the first indications of an intention of th e part of members of the royal family to turn thei r steps speedily homeward exhibited themselves 111 the despatch to Travemunde, en route for Balmoral, of the infant Prince Albert Victor. The embark"" Lion was conducted in the most private manner, th e crew of the yacht wearing their ordinary blue shirts and not the white dress of state occasions, and the marines not appearing upon deck at all. The gun s of Kronborg fort were silent; and, except for the royal servants in waiting upon the pier, who con e with the three carriages from Fredensborg, th e departure might have been that of any ordinal steamer. Such luggage as was requisite for the journey had been sent on board about 1 o'clock and at 2 precisely Dr Sieveking, who goes to Eng" land in charge of the baby, took up his position et the foot of the gangway, with an officer of the Deg' lish and another of the Danish royal household, in order to hand out from the second carriage Lady Da Grey and Ripon, in whose arms the infant Prince was resting. Mrs Walters, the nurse, and two servants followed ; and this constituted tb° entire retinue of the youngest member of the English royal family. The little Prince wore a round straw hat, with blue edging and a white feather, a white lace collar round his neck, and a wide blue mantle with three or four rows of braid, trimmed at the bottom with deep white lace. Al` ways a quiet, even tempered child, it gave no indi a cation of being either asleep or awake, but was carried below to the warm cabin by its nurse, in to whose arms it had been transferred when leaving the carriage. The men drew up in line respectful l y to let it pass and lifted their hats as it went hi , This was the only piece of ceremony. Mr. Taylo r ' the English Consul, with one or two other gentle men, went on board and paid their respects very briefly, and then Capt, Bower, R.N., took his station on the paddlebox, the yacht's head was got round , an operation of considerable nicety in a neon ° harbour such as Elsinore, and by half-past 2 o'cloel the Osborne was on her way to Travemunde, th e bathing place and nearest point of deep blue wate r to the city of Lubeck. To that town a river wind s ' which is navigable for smaller vessels, but not fo r those of the tonnage of the Royal yacht. On arriV ing at Travemunde a change into a smaller steamer, will accordingly be necessary, unless a drive el some 10 miles by road should ba considered prefer able. From Lubeck to Hamburg, as already stated' the journey by railway will be easy, and will b e continued to Gluckstadt, a town on the right bank of the river Elbe, where the Salamis will be i ll waiting to receive the prince, Lady De Grey, P r ' Sieveking, and the attendants, and to take thea l across to Hull. Here, according to the time of their arrival, a special, or if it should happen to corres i pond with their arrangements, the ordinary train will take on the Royal party to Balmoral. The Russian Grand Duke also quits Fredensborg this evening, and goes by train to Copenhagen where he will drive straight from one terminus t 4 the other and proceed to Korsoer, and there eel' barking on board his own yacht, the Standard, fe l Kiel. There is a rumour that his marriage wilt the Princess Dagmar will not take place before nex t year, and that in the meantime h:s Imperial Hig h ' ness will undertake an extensive course of trues' in the south of Europe, his bride elect proceeding simultaneously to St. Petersburg to familiarise hef' self under the Royal auspices with the strict re' quirements of Russian Court etiquette, and also t' be made acquainted, by the Chief Patriarch of Greek Church, with the principles of that religi nl of which it is requisite that she should profess b e/ adoption before the ceremony can take place. MUNIFICENT _DONATION TO ROYAL FB HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.--An elderly lady who has already contributed the EMI' of £7O ', in nine don s Lions, towards the funds of this very excellent charity, caller at the hospital during the sitting of the weekly board, a l Thursday, whsn atter making inquiries into the state o f t . l l l funds, and inspecting a great portion of the building, W it , the general at rangements of which she was highly grat iae' she handed a further donation of £3OO to Dr. Marscio the founder of the hospital, to meet the many demands a the institution. The number of patients relieved at tb hospital during last week was 3,314, of which 1,284 Wet new cases. LAUNCH OF ITIIE LORD CLYDE AT PEMBROO, DOCK.—The Lord Clyde ironclad steamship was ,launchec at Pembroke Dock on Thursday afterhoon, the cbristeni e i ceremony being performed , by Mrs ,S.turin, of Orieltolf The following are the dimensions of the Lord Clyde Length between perpendiculars. 280 ft. ; length of keel fe l tonnage, 2331 t. ; extrt ma breadth to outside ° armour, tB.t. Pin. ; ditto tonnage, 57ft. ; moulded, Ol t ' depth of hold, 30ft. 9in, ; burden in tons, 4,067. The Le r( Clyde will carry 36 guns. DEMOLITION OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION BIJILV ING.-oa. Saturday all the requisite arrangement for removing the towers in the Exhibition-road were Cod pleted by Captain Fowke and his staff of Royal Engineer' preparatory to operations for that purpose, which will tok place to-day. Borings to a considerable depth have be e made beneath the basements of the towers for the nee° eary explosive charges, which will be fired, by e lectric b e tery at a coup de main. The towers at the western tremity of the building, in Prince Alhert'e-road, will blown down on Thursday, an i thereafter the grand entre-qc in the Cromwell-road. All the walls and the rest of tl; building have already been removed. The ground is 0 peeled to be cleared by the end of the year, when operat e will be commenced for the erection of the propubed museum for the department of science dad att. - :, f ~2 4